Windows 8 developer preview now available

In a keynote speech yesterday, president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live Division, Steven Sinofsky (pictured above), told delegates at the Microsoft Build conference that the Windows 8 developer preview was now available.

The launch is the first step towards a full Windows 8 launch according to Sinofsky, who said that the path for delivering Windows 8 would be similar to that followed during the development of Windows 7.

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